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Superstition #1139

To take away warts, steal a dish-rag out of the house, without anybody’s knowledge, and go out of doors in the first of the moon, rub the dish-rag on the wart, and say: “Here, new moon! take away my new wart.” Then throw the dish-rag away where no one can find it, and tell nobody.

Talladega, Ala.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1139.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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